2016 Tenth Circuit US Court of Appeals Case Law

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Quintero v. Colvin
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1111
United States v. Williams
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3277
United States v. Reymundo-Lima
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4144
Taber v. Allied Waste Systems
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6113
Fry v. American Home Assurance
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7012
Hill v. J.B. Hunt Transport  
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7021

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2012, O.K. Farms, Inc. hired J.B. Hunt Transportation, Inc. to deliver chickens to Roger Gentry, a poultry grower with a farm near Wister, Oklahoma. Hunt, in turn, hired truck driver Troy Ford to deliver the chickens.…

Hernandez-Torres v. Lynch
Date: February 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9549
United States v. Belcher
Date: February 24, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3208
Parks v. Watts
Date: February 24, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6178
United States v. Johnson
Date: February 24, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6206
United States v. Gan
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 14-2208
Gandy v. Barber
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1164
United States v. Hernandez-Martinez
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1312
Allman v. Colvin  
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7026

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-appellant Michael Allman applied for Social Security disability benefits, claiming he could not work due to spina bifida, a shunt in his brain, chronic back pain, headaches, depression, and anxiety. An…

Morones-Quinones v. Lynch
Date: February 23, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9545
Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 12-1175
Adair v. Wichita Public Schools
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3209
United States v. Cherry
Date: February 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7037
Lebahn v. Owens  
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3244

Justia Opinion Summary: Trent Lebahn sued Eloise Owens, a consultant for Lebahn’s employee pension plan, for negligently misrepresenting the amount of his monthly retirement benefits. The district court dismissed Lebahn’s…

C. M. v. Urbina
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1067
Carbajal v. Lynn
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1344
New Mexico v. Trujillo  
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2047

Justia Opinion Summary: The water source at the heart of this general stream adjudication was the Nambe-Pojoaque-Tesuque Basin. The State of New Mexico was engaged in individual adjudications with parties who held permits to divert the Basin’s…

J. V. v. Albuquerque Public Schools  
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2071

Justia Opinion Summary: C.V. was a seven-year-old second grade student at an elementary school operated by Albuquerque Public Schools (“APS”). He was eligible for special education benefits for autism. One morning in 2011, C.V. disrupted his…

Olson v. Carmack
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3282
United States v. Batrez-Barraza
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6063
Aslan v. Colvin
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6096
Management Nominees v. Alderney Investments  
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8011

Justia Opinion Summary: This case involved competing claims to the ownership of Alderney Investments, LLC by relatives of Rudolf Skowronska (Rudolf), a Polish national. The initial filing with the Wyoming Secretary of State identified two…

Hakan Agro v. Unova Holdings
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8018
Tolman v. Stryker Corporation
Date: February 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8044
Green v. United States
Date: February 18, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5044
United States v. Jaquez
Date: February 18, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6194
Dixon v. RJM Acquisitions
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1098
United States v. Jones
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3257
Messick v. McKesson Corporation
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4019
Webb v. Caldwell
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4132
United States v. Schad
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6175
Kenney v. SSA ODAR Hearing
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6229
DeMillard v. Hargett
Date: February 17, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8129
Richards v. Colvin
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6121
United States v. Gutierrez-Carranza
Date: February 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7056
Calhoun v. Colvin
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1285
Stewart v. Colvin
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3099
Wahpekeche v. Colvin
Date: February 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6060
Berumen v. Colvin
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1150
Graham v. Taylor
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1286
Valois v. Commandant, USDB
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3255
United States v. Flores
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4082
Johnson v. Colvin
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5021
Loftis v. Harvanek  
Date: February 10, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7017

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2015, Petitioner Embry Loftis received a certificate of appealability to appeal the district court’s dismissal of his section 2254 habeas petition as time-barred. The Tenth Circuit considered the merits of…

Schell v. OXY USA
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 13-3297
Archangel Diamond v. OAO Lukoil  
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1510

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Archangel Diamond Corporation Liquidating Trust, as successor-in-interest to Archangel Diamond Corporation (collectively, “Archangel”), appealed dismissal of its civil case against defendant OAO Lukoil…

Pauly v. White  
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-2035

Justia Opinion Summary: In 2011, Samuel Pauly was shot to death through the window of his New Mexico home by one of three state police officers investigating an earlier road rage incident on Interstate 25 involving his brother. His father, on…

United States v. Vernon  
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3279

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Mary Vernon was a physician licensed to practice in the State of Kansas. She co-authored a book with the late Dr. Robert Atkins, famous for a low-carbohydrate diet. Vernon also worked as the medical director…

Intermountain Stroke Ctr. v. Intermountain Health Care
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-4045
Reece v. AES Corporation
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 14-7010
United States v. Munoz  
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2048

Justia Opinion Summary: Jesus Munoz was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana. He pled guilty and was sentenced to time served or thirteen days, whichever was less, and two years of supervised release. The term of the…

Gonzales v. Bernalillo County
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2155
Farris v. Garden City, Kansas
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3160
Milton v. Miller  
Date: February 9, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6069

Justia Opinion Summary: Oklahoma state prisoner Antonio Milton requested a certificate of appealability (COA) to appeal the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. 2254 petition for habeas relief. In 2007, Milton was prosecuted in two separate…

United States v. Brown
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 13-8055
Suarez-Sanchez v. Lynch
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 14-9557
Maehr v. CIR
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1342
Jones v. Estep
Date: February 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1414
O'Connor v. Williams
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1494
Gambrill v. Unified Govt of Wyandotte
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3229
Kieffer v. Denham
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1351
Steigelman v. McDaniel
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2159
United States v. Anderson
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2164
United States v. Brooks
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3199
Kirby v. OCWEN Loan Servicing
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5089
United States v. Herrera
Date: February 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6160
Independence Institute v. Williams  
Date: February 4, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1463

Justia Opinion Summary: The Independence Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, conducts research and educates the public on public policy. During the 2014 Colorado gubernatorial campaign, the Institute intended to air an advertisement…

United States v. Yazzie
Date: February 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2199
United States v. Twitty
Date: February 3, 2016
Docket Number: 16-1036
United States v. Nance
Date: February 2, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6127
United States v. Twitty
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1173
United States v. Kieffer
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1078
United States v. Rodriguez
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1306
Genesis Health Clubs v. LED Solar & Light Co.
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3033
Cyprus Federal Credit Union v. Cumis Insurance Society
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4025
Condor-Araujo v. Lynch
Date: February 1, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9559
Evans v. Colvin
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1222
Parker v. Colvin
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1232
Velarde v. Archuleta
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1250
Unal v. Los Alamos Public Schools
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2055
United States v. Fraughton
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4103
Hannah v. Northeastern State University
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7009
Zhang v. Lynch
Date: January 29, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9538
Dornon v. Jurgens
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3137
Nyanjom v. Hawker Beechcraft Corp.
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3148
United States v. Serrato
Date: January 28, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4070
Lehman Brothers Holdings v. Universal American Mortgage
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1180
United States v. Warren
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3260
United States v. Neel
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 14-7003
Dawson v. Brightwell
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1103
United States v. Romero
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1201
Harris v. Gallagher
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1462
United States v. Grigsby
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3281
Manning, II. v. Patton
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5072
United States v. Wilson
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6187
Libretti v. Courtney
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8039
United States v. Page
Date: January 27, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8091
United States v. Cotonuts
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 13-1539
Taylor v. Colorado Dept of Health Care  
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1161

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Leslie Taylor asked the Colorado Medicaid program to combine the benefits she received through two assistance programs to help her get to medical appointments. If approved, this combination would allow the…

Columbian Financial Corp. v. Stork  
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3274

Justia Opinion Summary: Amidst the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the Office of the State Bank Commissioner of Kansas declared The Columbian Bank and Trust Company insolvent, seized the bank’s assets, and appointed the Federal Deposit Insurance…

Lester v. City of Lafayette
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1108
Browning v. Oliver
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1425
American Atheists v. Thompson
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6059
Barnett v. Bear
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-7065
Guru v. Lynch
Date: January 26, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9560
Montoya v. Hunter Douglas Window Fashions
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1491
United States v. Lewis
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1394
White v. City of Albuquerque
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2045
Mancell v. McHugh
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2079
Cain v. Aragon
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2118
United States v. Sparks
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5062
Pemberton v. Patton
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6089
Pemberton v. Patton
Date: January 25, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6129
United States v. Lowe
Date: January 22, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2091
United States v. Koerber  
Date: January 21, 2016
Docket Number: 14-4107

Justia Opinion Summary: In May 2009, a federal grand jury indicted Claud Koerber on one count each of mail fraud, wire fraud, and tax evasion. In November 2009 and September 2011, the grand jury returned two additional superseding indictments,…

United States v. Fager  
Date: January 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3104

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant Brian Fager appealed the denial of his Motion to Suppress a firearm police officers discovered on his person during a roadside frisk. A Topeka Police Department deputy stopped defendant's car for a turn signal…

Gutierrez-Orozco v. Lynch  
Date: January 21, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9534

Justia Opinion Summary: Octavio Gutierrez-Orozco (Gutierrez), a native and citizen of Mexico, entered the United States illegally. Gutierrez insisted he entered the United States in March 1996. He remembered that date because his wife, who…

Christy v. Travelers Indemnity  
Date: January 20, 2016
Docket Number: 14-2168

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff-Appellant Corey Christy purchased a commercial general-liability insurance policy from Travelers in the name of his sole proprietorship, K&D Oilfield Supply. Subsequently, Christy registered his business as a…

NLRB v. Community Health Services  
Date: January 20, 2016
Docket Number: 14-9614

Justia Opinion Summary: The issue this case presented for the Tenth Circuit's review centered on a whether the National Labor Relations Board could disregard interim earnings when calculating backpay awards for employees whose labor injury fell…

L'Ggrke v. Asset Plus Corporation
Date: January 20, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5059
American Fidelity Assurance v. Bank of New York Mellon  
Date: January 20, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6009

Justia Opinion Summary: American Fidelity Assurance Company sued the Bank of New York Mellon (“BNYM”) for claims arising from BNYM’s conduct as Trustee of a trust holding mortgage-backed securities owned by American Fidelity. BNYM did not…

United States v. Lilly  
Date: January 19, 2016
Docket Number: 14-8041

Justia Opinion Summary: After federal investigative agents from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) arrested her fiance with a quarter pound of methamphetamine, defendant-Appellant Janet Lilly was contacted by…

United States v. Beierle  
Date: January 19, 2016
Docket Number: 14-8049

Justia Opinion Summary: A jury convicted defendant James Beierle of being a felon in possession of a firearm, for which he was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment. The sentencing court found him eligible for a sentence enhancement under the…

Chase v. Lind
Date: January 19, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1304
United States v. Deloera-Escalera
Date: January 15, 2016
Docket Number: 14-5143
Nails v. Slusher
Date: January 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3138
Ngiendo v. Sedgwick Claims Mgmt. Services
Date: January 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3149
United States v. McGuire
Date: January 15, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3158
Griffin v. Scnurr
Date: January 14, 2016
Docket Number: 14-3208
United States v. Muse
Date: January 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1325
United States v. Harris
Date: January 14, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3152
Martin Marietta Materials v. Kansas DOT  
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 13-3314

Justia Opinion Summary: Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. appealed a district court’s dismissal of its due-process claims against the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT). After KDOT removed two Martin Marietta quarries from its preapproved…

Tripodi v. Welch  
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 14-4084

Justia Opinion Summary: Debtor-Appellant Nathan Welch appealed a district court’s order denying his motion for judgment on the pleadings and determining that a default judgment was nondischargeable in bankruptcy. This case arose from the…

United States v. Rubio-Ayala
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3194
United States v. Bishop
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6115
Jordanoff v. Lester
Date: January 13, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6148
Miller v. State of Utah
Date: January 12, 2016
Docket Number: 14-4155
He v. Lynch
Date: January 12, 2016
Docket Number: 15-9557
Ryder v. Warrior  
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 13-7073

Justia Opinion Summary: Petitioner-Appellant James Ryder, an Oklahoma state prisoner convicted of murder and sentenced to death, appealed the district court’s denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus. In a prior unpublished order, the…

Sanchez v. Hartley  
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1385

Justia Opinion Summary: This appeal grew out of an investigation into a 2009 burglary and sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl. Four detectives and an investigator participated in the investigation. In carrying out the investigation, the…

Stengel v. New Mexico Corrections Dept.
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-2183
Powell v. Heimgartner
Date: January 11, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3241
United States v. Read-Forbes
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3260
Sanchez v. Trammell
Date: January 8, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6043
United States v. Davis
Date: January 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3174
Preston v. CitiMortgage
Date: January 7, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6057
Checkley v. Allied Property & Casualty
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1482
Handy v. City of Sheridan
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1048
Nixon v. Ledwith
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3087
Lewis v. Twenty-First Century Bean
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3188
Fedorowicz v. Pearce
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4061
United States v. Serrano-Rodriguez
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5030
Collins v. Colvin
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6073
United States v. Turrentine
Date: January 6, 2016
Docket Number: 15-6082
Espinoza v. Arkansas Valley Adventures  
Date: January 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1444

Justia Opinion Summary: Sue Ann Apolinar hired a guide for a family adventure in the Colorado Rockies, which included an overnight rafting and camping excursion on a popular stretch of the Arkansas River running through Brown’s Canyon. While…

Nesbitt v. FCNH  
Date: January 5, 2016
Docket Number: 14-1502

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Rhonda Nesbitt filed this action claiming that defendants FCNH, Inc., Virginia Massage Therapy, Inc., Mid-Atlantic Massage Therapy, Inc., Steiner Education Group, Inc., Steiner Leisure Ltd., and SEG CORT LLC…

Sayed v. Broman
Date: January 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1157
Tafoya v. State of Colorado
Date: January 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1384
United States v. Webster  
Date: January 5, 2016
Docket Number: 15-3027

Justia Opinion Summary: Defendant-appellee Ricky Webster pled guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base (crack cocaine), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug…

Savant Homes v. Collins  
Date: January 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1115

Justia Opinion Summary: Plaintiff Savant Home, Inc., a custom home designer and builder, held a registered copyright to a floor plan of a three-bedroom ranch house (“Anders Plan”). Savant built a model house embodying that plan in Windsor,…

Frazier v. Flores
Date: January 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-1237
Pumphrey v. Wood
Date: January 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-4075
Lynn v. Colvin
Date: January 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-5031
Fellon v. Lampert
Date: January 4, 2016
Docket Number: 15-8016

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